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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by ThinksMarkedly   » Tue Jun 02, 2020 12:21 pm

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Theemile wrote:Actually, this Forum is not the original. The original site was on Baen's Bar (and is still there, though with far less traffic these days).


And before that there was USENET group alt.books.david-weber.
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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by tlb   » Tue Jun 02, 2020 12:53 pm

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Theemile wrote:Actually, this Forum is not the original. The original site was on Baen's Bar (and is still there, though with far less traffic these days). Most of the users migrated here over the first year or so it was open as the conversation levels shifted (actually, we followed the snippets). Duckk was on the original board and got recruited to be the new webadmin. I've been posting since late 2004, and several people like Duckk preceeded me.

I tried to get into Baen's Bar last year, but it required a sign-in and the process to create a new sign-in was broken; so I have not gone back.
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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by Theemile   » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:21 pm

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ThinksMarkedly wrote:
Theemile wrote:Actually, this Forum is not the original. The original site was on Baen's Bar (and is still there, though with far less traffic these days).


And before that there was USENET group alt.books.david-weber.


I didn't know how many users made that leap to Baen's Bar for continuity sake of the membership, so I didn't mention it, but you are right; that reached back into the 1990s.
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RFC said "refitting a Beowulfan SD to Manticoran standards would be just as difficult as refitting a standard SLN SD to those standards. In other words, it would be cheaper and faster to build new ships."
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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by Jonathan_S   » Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:08 pm

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Theemile wrote:
ThinksMarkedly wrote:And before that there was USENET group alt.books.david-weber.


I didn't know how many users made that leap to Baen's Bar for continuity sake of the membership, so I didn't mention it, but you are right; that reached back into the 1990s.

Wow. USENET was long before I was involved in this community. I was on the Bar but eventually came over here because a) the Bar's forum software blew up one to many times, b) snippets were being posted here first, and c) RFC was posting here rather than over there.

Once creating my account here I quickly stopped bothering to visit the Bar.
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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by Duckk   » Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:47 pm

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I poke my head into the Bar periodically, just to check if there’s anything critical that David needs to be aware of. BuShips has turned into a complete wasteland. It is literally just warpish in there posting one crazy technical boondoggle after another. Honorverse does get a little activity, thankfully.
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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by cthia   » Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:35 pm

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Theemile wrote:
ThinksMarkedly wrote:And before that there was USENET group alt.books.david-weber.


I didn't know how many users made that leap to Baen's Bar for continuity sake of the membership, so I didn't mention it, but you are right; that reached back into the 1990s.

Jonathan_S wrote:Wow. USENET was long before I was involved in this community. I was on the Bar but eventually came over here because a) the Bar's forum software blew up one to many times, b) snippets were being posted here first, and c) RFC was posting here rather than over there.

Once creating my account here I quickly stopped bothering to visit the Bar.

Ok, that's not funny, because I hate it when stuff gets destroyed here because it times-out and falls off the back-end of the forum.

But IT IS HUMOROUS, because just like Honor, you are all indeed keel-plate owners. And destroyed software represents Honor's burnt sail-plane plaque. :lol:

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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by cthia   » Wed Jun 03, 2020 5:20 am

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Speaking of the aforementioned damsel in distress swimming upstream, we all know how much Honor loves Bachfisch.

The 'fisch is in Shark and Whale infested waters too. It would certainly float my boat if Honor was the cavalry for the 'fisch. "How you like my new ride, Captain?" :D

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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by TFLYTSNBN   » Wed Jun 03, 2020 1:21 pm

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cthia wrote:
Thinking about Keel Plate Owners. Are there any original members on the site still active? Original, meaning, became members within the first year or so of the site's maiden voyage? Is Duckk a Keel Plate Owner?

And, where did Weber get the notion of Keel Plate Owner anyway?


Actually, this Forum is not the original. The original site was on Baen's Bar (and is still there, though with far less traffic these days). Most of the users migrated here over the first year or so it was open as the conversation levels shifted (actually, we followed the snippets). Duckk was on the original board and got recruited to be the new webadmin. I've been posting since late 2004, and several people like Duckk preceeded me.



I know of a certain NAMELESSFLY who provoked much consternation and a somewhat snarky reply from David Weber by questioning how the MALIGN ghost ships could be stealthy when using fusion rockets for their initial manauvers. The highly intelligent NAMELESSFLY actually embraced the name bestowed upon him by Weber.
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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by tlb   » Wed Jun 03, 2020 1:35 pm

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TFLYTSNBN wrote:I know of a certain NAMELESSFLY who provoked much consternation and a somewhat snarky reply from David Weber by questioning how the MALIGN ghost ships could be stealthy when using fusion rockets for their initial manauvers. The highly intelligent NAMELESSFLY actually embraced the name bestowed upon him by Weber.

What specifically do you mean by a "fusion Rocket"? Everything bigger than a LAC is fusion powered; but those words suggest a plasma thruster with a fusion energy source to me. Since that would be a nuclear flare, it would definitely not be stealthy.

PS. Just a little bit of self congratulation, perhaps?
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Re: Honor: Pimp My Ride
Post by Theemile   » Wed Jun 03, 2020 7:15 pm

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tlb wrote:
TFLYTSNBN wrote:I know of a certain NAMELESSFLY who provoked much consternation and a somewhat snarky reply from David Weber by questioning how the MALIGN ghost ships could be stealthy when using fusion rockets for their initial manauvers. The highly intelligent NAMELESSFLY actually embraced the name bestowed upon him by Weber.

What specifically do you mean by a "fusion Rocket"? Everything bigger than a LAC is fusion powered; but those words suggest a plasma thruster with a fusion energy source to me. Since that would be a nuclear flare, it would definitely not be stealthy.

PS. Just a little bit of self congratulation, perhaps?


Didn't the text state the Ghosts used a strap on cold thrust system to exit the freighters, not their fusion thrusters?
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RFC said "refitting a Beowulfan SD to Manticoran standards would be just as difficult as refitting a standard SLN SD to those standards. In other words, it would be cheaper and faster to build new ships."
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